the decision of whether or not to pursue an official diagnosis is a pretty personal one. there's a lot of variables, depending on your individual situation, but yeah there's not usually a whole heck of a lot of material benefits if you aren't still in school.
most adults who go for a doctor's diagnosis do so because they value getting that second, professional, opinion on the matter. it can help settle down all that second guessing. but, it isn't strictly necessary. most autistic communities are perfectly fine with self-diagnosis; you can learn the diagnostic criteria yourself and do your own research, and no random doc is gonna know you better than you know yourself.
the begats ain't so bad, it's only a couple short bits in the first book, as i recall, which is otherwise one of the best books that i read, with lots of relatively interesting short stories. the worst part in the early first books that i read in their entirety would have to be in exodus, where god spends ages going on and on to moses about the precise details of his dream tent. it feels like it goes on for a hundred pages, and then, a few chapters later, he does it all again.
the title of this post really seems to be advocating for making sure trump wins (or at least for harris losing, which in the US's two party system, amounts to the same thing). though i don't know what it has to do with putin.
I have knowledge. People who disagree with me have beliefs. /s
nah but for real its all the same, innit? it's just a matter of how well supported you think your thoughts/beliefs/knowledges are. if i was drawing that kind of a distinction in my head, wouldn't that mean that i'm thinking things are true that i simultaneously know are false? if i was gonna have 'knowledge' and 'beliefs' rattling in my head as separate things, that seems like me it'd smack of willful self-delusion.
one time, i saw somebody try to sneak by a big truck making a necessarily wide right turn, and get the whole left side of the car sheered off like a pad of butter.
we most certainly do not need both. if we did the latter successfully, we should be getting rid of most gas cars, and replacing only the remainder. having as many cars as we have now is bad for a multitude of reasons beyond that they're mostly burning gas.
just cause you recognize that you gotta use steam if you wanna make a living, doesn't mean you can't hate steam and wish they didn't have such a monopoly. lots of people use things they hate, just cause that's the meta, y'know?
because they prefer to dream of themselves as billionaires in potentia. it's hard to admit you've been duped, especially when society gives you so many targets to punch down on.
gotta be either the tiny computer i'm typing this on, or the large, sturdy, wooden stick in the corner. if i had to pick to keep just one though, it'd be the phone. a sturdy stick has a million and one uses, but it's also fairly easily replaceable.
my partner showed me this yesterday, and i am slightly embarrassed to admit that i tapped the screen at least five times before i figured something was up, and mostly because she was fucking dying laughing at my expense.
picking a favourite is hard, but In The Tall Grass (2019) is definitely up there, and i never see anyone talk about it. also, Malignant (2021). definitely try to go in blind for that one if you can.
i'm always surprised that most people rank the nun as the worst in the conjuring franchise. i think it's probably my favorite. conjuring 2 is phenomenal too. and they're definitely horror.
i think the second bike is actually OOP's roommates bike, which got moved into their apartment prior to the end of the text exchange.